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Tephritidae
The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae. The family Tephritidae does not include the biological model organisms of the genus Drosophila (in the family Drosophilidae), which is often called the "common fruit fly". Nearly 5,000 described species of tephritid fruit fly are categorized in almost 500 genera of the Tephritidae. Description, recategorization, and genetic analyses are constantly changing the taxonomy of this family. To distinguish them from the Drosophilidae, the Tephritidae are sometimes called peacock flies, in

Anastrepha fraterculus
species of insect

Tephritis fallax
species of insect
Coelotrypes fasciolatus
species of insect
Phytalmia cervicornis
species of insect
Dacus aequalis
species of insect

Phytalmia alcicornis
species of insect